Cat Auburn
Cat Auburn is an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand based in Argyll. Her art practice (sculpture, textile, film, event, and writing) focuses on how cultural heritage is constructed, reinforced, and strategically employed. Artistic ‘making’ is how she explores complex interrelational dynamics between ‘self’ and ‘culture’, local and global, policymaking and those subject to policy. The […]
Maria de Lima
Maria de Lima is a Brazilian-British artist currently based in Glasgow, working across video, installation and painting. She approaches video through a feminist lens to explore the many value systems embedded in language. Focusing on translation between Portuguese and English, she explores how the legacy of colonialism and its resistance leaves traces through the words […]
Saturn Akin
Saturn Akin is a Glasgow-based multidisciplinary artist, working across performance, adornment making, 3D, and photography. Their art practice revolves around the conjuration of their own identity (NB/Trans) and is driven by the creation, deconstruction, and reconstruction of adornments, 3D objects and still-lifes. Through this intricate and generative process, Saturn Akin explores themes of transness, body […]
Iman Tajik
Iman Tajik is an Iranian artist based in Glasgow. His work is anchored in a strong social interest and demonstrates an effort to make work that is a critical tool connected to international movements for social change. Tajik’s work addresses issues of contemporary conditions of life with a particular focus on migration and globalisation – […]
Oleksandra Novatska
Oleksandra Novatska is an artist and curator from Lviv, Ukraine, now living in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. She works mainly with watercolor and pencil, adding other materials and techniques where a project requires them. Last year, Oleksandra held a solo exhibition entitled ‘Faraway. From Ukraine to UK – A Tribute‘ in Dumfries, which then travelled […]
Haleh Jamali
Haleh Jamali is an Iranian woman artist, who views video art as a storytelling tool that creates immersive experiences that resonate deeply with viewers’ emotions. Passionate about exploring themes of identity and societal issues, Haleh wants to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about Iranian culture, while also shedding light on the challenges and complexities faced by […]
Paria Goodarzi
Paria Goodarzi is an Iranian-born artist and social art practitioner, a member of UNESCO RILA Affiliated Artist network, and The Young Academy of Scotland. Paria studied BA(Hons) in Textile Design from the University of Science & Culture in Tehran, Sculpture & Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art, and Master of Adult Education, Community Development […]
Jere Vainio
Finnish artist Jere Vainio is the recipient of the 2024 Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency. Vainio works with familiar materials and seeks to understand them from the perspective of making and unmaking. This approach stems from his experience as a skilled pattern cutter and maker of clothing. He utilises a technical approach to […]
Yvonne Hardman
Yvonne Hardman is the Head of Collections & Programmes at Leeds Museums & Galleries, a large local authority-run museum service, which runs eight venues across the city and cares for 1.3 million objects. Part of Yvonne’s role is to manage the organisation’s Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation programme alongside leading a team of subject-specialist […]
Miranda Vissers
Miranda Vissers is an environmental artist. She has a background of a MSc in environmental health studies and an education in monumental arts. Her work is created out of love for nature and also a concern about the environment. She works with mixed media, all her materials are either found in nature, donated or recycled. […]
Paula Thompson
We are pleased to welcome the artist Paula Thompson to Cove Park for a one-week residency in 2024. Paula is a visual artist based in Edinburgh. She works mainly to commission on public art projects, where her work responds to the history of the site, its environs and its users. She uses a wide variety […]
Lesley McIntyre
Lesley is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is fascinated by the mystery of ‘what has gone before’ and driven to uncover and map the hidden histories and narratives of the sites she encounters. This has led her to develop a creative practice in exploring fragments of context, people, place, and […]